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Currently, the plan includes trawlers in the Central Gulf and both trawl and pot cod gear in the Western Gulf.
"Catch share programs certainly can benefit the long term viability of the resource in a fishing community, but only if they are designed right and the long term health of the resource, the community and genuine bycatch reduction measures are built in up front," said Theresa Peterson of Kodiak, a spokesperson for the Alaska Marine Conservation Council (AMCC) and a member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Advisory panel.
Peterson added that it is really tough to add in community protections after a privatization plan hits the water.
"We've all learned lessons from past programs, such as the rapid consolidation of ownership, reduced opportunities for crew and captains and shore support workers, the increased costs of entering into a fishery and the potential for absentee ownership and quota leasing," she said.
Using the same privatization model as with Alaska halibut, sablefish and Bering Sea crab will serve to shrink fishing communities that depend on groundfish, insisted Seth Macinko, a fisheries professor at the University of Rhode Island who has spent decades studying catch share programs around the world. At a recent meeting with Kodiak City and Borough officials, he stressed the importance of being involved from the beginning.
"A lot of this is being promoted via a 'privatize or perish' message, as if you don't have any other alternatives. I think that is wrong," Macinko said. "People are confusing a tool with an ideology, and the tool is simply pre-assigned catch. That is what makes the difference out on the water and you can do that in many ways. My message to you is that you have got a choice between actively designing your future versus saying it is too complicated, it makes my head hurt, and leaving it to others to decide."
One alternative is to assign fishing shares to communities, which then lease the shares to their local fleets. Alaska in 2002 set up a Community Quota Entities (CQE) program which allowed for 42 eligible fishing towns to buy quota and lease it to local fishermen. For varying reasons, there has been very little CQE activity.
AMCC's Peterson has been engaging with other fishing communities around the nation to see how they have adapted to the changes brought about by catch share plans. Fishermen at Port Orford, Oregon and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for example, have formed community associations that secure access to the fish and then redistributed it to active fishermen in their port. Members of those communities and others will make presentations at ComFish on April 11. (www.comfishalaska.com)
The NPFMC will move forward with designing new management scenarios for the Gulf of Alaska in June. It will have huge ramifications for Kodiak, where most of the Gulf groundfish catches are landed.
"Hopefully we can all work together to craft a program that really looks towards what we want our fishing community to look like fifty years down the line," Peterson said.
Fishing #1 for fatalities - Commercial fishing still ranks as the nation's deadliest job – nearly 35 times higher in 2011 than the rate for all US workers. That's the latest from the Center of Disease Control's weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report.
For the decade through 2009, 504 US fishermen died on the job. Over half died by drowning when their boat went down, and 30% from falling overboard. Another 10% were caused by injuries onboard, usually from entanglements in the winch, used for winding ropes.
The Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery tops the most deadly list with 55 fatalities over the decade. The other most hazardous fisheries in the U.S. were the Atlantic scallop fishery with 44 fatalities; the Alaska salmon fishery with 39 fatalities; the Northeast multispecies groundfish fishery with 26 fatalities; the Alaska cod fishery with 26 fatalities; the West Coast Dungeness crab fishery with 25 fatalities; and the Alaska sole fishery with 21 fatalities. Find a link to the CDC report at www.alaskafishradio.com
Boost to medical benefits - The Fishermen's Fund is a program unique to Alaska that since 1951 has provided medical benefits to commercial fishermen hurt on the job. The Fund's revenues come from 39% of commercial fishing license fees.
Last year the fund helped 700 fishermen and paid over $850,000 in benefits, said Velma Thomas, Program Coordinator at the Dept. of Labor's Workmen's Compensation Division in Juneau. In 2010 the benefit limit quadrupled to $10,000. The Fund also covers transportation, prescriptions and physical therapy and chiropractic treatments. Thomas said the rules for getting the benefits are very straightforward.
"They must have a valid commercial fishing license at the time of the injury. The injury must be directly connected to commercial fishing, and it must occur within Alaska waters. They've got to seek medical treatment within 60 days of the injury, and they must file a claim report within a year. So it's pretty simple and easy," she explained.
Information about the Fishermen's Fund is on the back of every commercial fishing license. The five member Fund council is traveling around the state to make more people aware of the medical benefits, and will be in Kodiak in mid-April. http://labor.alaska.gov/wc/ffund.htm
ComFish time! ComFish is Alaska's longest running fisheries trade show and the 34th annual event is set for April 11-13 in Kodiak. Find the lineup of exhibitors and presentations at www.comfishalaska.com. Next year ComFish will feature its famous 'goober debate' when all gubernatorial candidates come to town to share their knowledge about Alaska's seafood industry in a live, two hour statewide broadcast. Since 1990, every candidate running for governor has participated in the fisheries event.


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Evening round-up: Proposition 8 argument
on Mar 26, 2013 at 6:29 pm
This morning's oral arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, involving the challenge to California's Proposition 8, continue to generate lively discussion and analysis among media outlets and the blogosphere. Coverage is focusing primarily on how Justice Kennedy might vote in the case and the threshold issue of whether the proponents of Proposition 8 have standing to defend the initiative. Kali Borkoski has posted links to transcripts and audio from today's oral argument here. More pictures from outside the courthouse are here.
At this blog, Lyle Denniston observes that, with the Justices so clearly split along ideological lines, focusing on Justice Kennedy to predict an outcome was an "even more reliable approach this time" than usual, and Justice Kennedy appeared strongly tempted to conclude that the case was improvidently granted. Thus, as Amy Howe observes in her review of the arguments "in Plain English," "the real question before the Court is not whether it would strike down Proposition 8, or what the broader effect of such a decision might be, but whether it is going to reach the merits of the case at all." Tom Goldstein explains that if these indications hold true, the Court's ruling will take one of two forms: Either the Court could conclude that the proponents of Proposition 8 lacked standing to bring the claim, in which case it would "vacate the Ninth Circuit opinion but leave in place the distinct court decision invalidating Proposition 8," or "the Court may dismiss the case because of an inability to reach a majority. . . . The upshot of either scenario is a modest step forward for gay rights advocates, but not a dramatic one." In "Reaching a judgment," Tom Goldstein reflects further on an additional option before the Court in Holingsworth light of its contemporaneous consideration of United States v. Windsor, the challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act: if the Court is unable to get five votes on any single issue, it may vote to vacate and remand the Ninth Circuit's judgment in Hollingsworth for reconsideration in light of Windsor. [Disclosures: Kevin Russell of the law firm Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys work for or contribute to this blog in various capacities, was among the counsel on an amicus brief filed by former senators in support of Edith Windsor in Windsor. Tejinder Singh, also of Goldstein & Russell, P.C., was among the counsel on an amicus brief filed by international human rights advocates in support of the respondents in Hollingsworth.]
Media coverage also includes statements from the lawyers representing the two same-sex couples in Hollingsworth. The Wall Street Journal has published an op-ed written by Ted Olson and David Boies, the lawyers leading the challenge to Proposition 8, in which they argue that marriage is a fundamental right and that states should not remain free to deprive same-sex couples of that right for as long as they wish. ABC News has video coverage of Ted Olson introducing the plaintiffs in the case and answering questions about oral arguments. Debra Cassesns Weiss of the ABA Journal profiles Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending Proposition 8 before the Court.
At Bloomberg, Laurie Asseo and Greg Stohr recap today's oral arguments, while at Bloomberg View Cass R. Sunstein outlines the four possible paths for same-sex marriage after this week's oral arguments. Ilya Shapiro at Cato at Liberty also provides analysis of the oral arguments and the potential outcomes in the case. At NPR, Nina Totenberg (audio) summarizes the three key points of today's oral arguments, while Liz Halloran highlights the individual Justices' apparent positions on five key questions. Other coverage of today's arguments comes from Joe Palazzolo and Jacob Gershman at The Wall Street Journal Law Blog (subscription required), Mark Sherman for the Associated Press, Adam Liptak of The New York Times, The Washington Post's Robert Barnes and Carol Morello, The BLT's Tony Mauro, Michael Doyle at McClatchy Newspapers, and Lawrence Hurley and David Ingram at Thomson Reuters.
On the issue of public opinion, Politico's Josh Gerstein and Jennifer Epstein observe that "[t]he country may seem to be in a hurry on same-sex marriage, but not the Supreme Court." In his FiveThirtyEight column for The New York Times, Nate Silver traces the rapid increase in public approval of gay marriage and observes that "the steadiness of the trend give[s] its supporters more confidence that the numbers will continue to break their way regardless of what the Supreme Court decides." Writing for Policymic, Tanya Washington, who filed an amicus brief in opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor, explains that young people overwhelmingly support gay marriage and that "if the Supreme Court listens to the millennials, same-sex marriage will become legal." Writing for the Brookings Institution, Jonathan Rauch observes that the political nature of the conversation at oral arguments, though normally "bad," was in this case a positive: "The court just didn't have enough clear law to decide the questions before it. So it had to do what the Supreme Court must do, and indeed should, when law can't settle the problem. It openly considered the political consequences of its decisions." Mike Dorf at Dorf on Law posts additional discussion about the potential impact that a fear of backlash may have on the Court's disposition of the same-sex marriage cases.
Other coverage focused on indications of the individual Justices' positions regarding same-sex marriage. At Jost on Justice, Kenneth Jost observes that the Justices "appeared to open the possibility of skirting a definitive ruling [in Hollingsworth], but a majority of the justices also signaled at least tentative support for marriage rights for gays and lesbians." Damon W. Root of Reason.com writes that "[a]lthough the U.S. Supreme Court appeared extremely divided this morning over the legality of California's ban on gay marriage, the justices did exhibit widespread agreement on one point: None of them seemed to find the Obama administration's position on Proposition 8 [that it is unconstitutional for states allow for same-sex civil unions but not same-sex marriage] to be very convincing." At Reuters, Richard L. Hasen explores the factors that may lead some members of the Court, in particular Justice Kennedy, to make a trade-off in deciding in favor of some civil rights causes – same-sex marriage – at the expense of others, such as affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. At Bloomberg, Francis Wilkinson interviews Yale Law School Professor Jack M. Balkin about originalism, Justice Scalia, and gay marriage.
Finally, NYU Review of Law & Social Change has recently published a symposium featuring thirty essays from legal scholars and practitioners discussing Hollingsworth v. Perry.

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The Solid Waste Department is the "go to" department to get a dead animal removed, BUT they generally DO NOT enter private property to pick up a dead animal; the animal must be in the City Right Of Way (typically in the street, along the curb or in the area between the sidewalk and the back of the curb). In cooler weather or winter, City trash customers may, using a shovel or pair of rubber gloves, place a small dead animal into a tight-closing plastic garbage bag and place the bag in their trash cart for collection with their normal trash; doing so is acceptable and is by far the most efficient way to deal with a small dead animal, gag reflex notwithstanding. If the citizen does not wish to deal with the issue, and the animal is in City ROW, whether a deer, raccoon, whistle pig, dog, polecat, opossum, rabbit or other creature, the Solid Waste Department will send a truck to collect the animal during their normal working hours. Call with details 319-753-8114.
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Please remember that your trash must always be set out before 7 am of your collection day. Weeks in which holidays fall, a specialty program is being carried out, a change in drivers due to vacation or illness and weather conditions all can be cause for the collection truck to come earlier than usual. If your cart is not out at the set out location when the collection vehicle arrives to collect your trash the driver notifies the office. You are allowed one (1) late set out; if you call and request collection of your trash AFTER the truck has been there, the office will notify the crew and an effort will be made to send them back that same day. It could be the next work day before they return to collect your properly prepared trash. However, a second violation/late set out request to return for collection will require you to attach two $4 yellow trash tags to your cart with the lid fully closed and extra trash tagged, otherwise you will need to hold your trash until your next collection day and attach trash tags to any extra bagged trash that does not fit in your cart with the lid fully closed. Crews will NOT be sent back for chronic repeat offenses.
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There is no trash collection on the following observed holidays: New Year's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Usually trash will be collected on the day following the holiday, then crews will go right into the next day's route. They play catch-up until they are back to normal. Please note however, on those rare occasions where the holiday is on a FRIDAY, both Thursday and Friday's trash will be collected on Thursday.
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The landfill off of Washington Road has a paved drop off area and accepts self-hauled materials for a fee (319-753-8722) Solid Waste crews can collect tires and lead-acid batteries from Burlington Solid Waste customers. Tires require 2 Trash Tags for the first tire from a residence and 1 for each additional tire. This pertains to tires from motorcycles, cars or pick up trucks. We do not pick up tractor tires. Tires must be clean but they can be on or off the rim. Lead-acid batteries require 2 Trash Tags for collection. To get on the list for pick up, send an email to email@example.com provide your name, address, and telephone number.
If you have nearly full cans of paint, you may be able to donate them to an organization like a community theater, battered women's or homeless shelter. If you have a least ½ gallon of paint, it may be accepted at the HazChem Center for the swap shop. Oil-based or lead paint should be taken to the HazChem Center. Call 319-753-8758 for an appointment. Small quantities of spray paint should be sprayed onto a piece of cardboard until the can is empty. The can and the cardboard can both be thrown into the trash. However, the HazChem Center encourages residents to bring aerosol cans of all types, full or empty, for free disposal. Call 319-753-8758 for an appointment. Paint cans will be picked up by garbage collection crews if the lid is off the can and the driver can see that the can is empty or the contents are dry or have been absorbed with material like saw dust, cat litter, or oil dry. Latex paint will dry by simply leaving the lid off the can.
Non-rechargeable alkaline and carbon zinc batteries, like those used in toys and flashlights may be thrown away in the trash. Rechargeable nickel cadmium batteries used in kitchen appliances, cordless phones, and power tools are recyclable and should be taken to the HazChem Center, Burlington Public Library, Lowes, Standard of Beaverdale or Staples. Button batteries like those used in hearing aids and watches are considered hazardous waste and should be taken to the HazChem Center. For your safety, materials are accepted at the HazChem Center by appointment only, so always call first! The number is 319-753-8758. Lead-acid batteries, like those from a vehicle are collected by Solid Waste crews from Solid Waste customers and require 2 Trash Tags. To get on the list for pick up, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and provide your name, address, and telephone number. If you prefer, you may take batteries to the landfill for a nominal fee. The number of the landfill is 319-753-8722.
Due to their explosive nature, propane tanks from gas grills, or any type of pressurized tank (even helium tanks used for blowing up party balloons) will not be taken with the trash, and they are not accepted at the HazChem Center. They may be taken to the Des Moines County Area Recyclers, 1818 West Burlington Ave, for free disposal. Solid Waste crews can collect pressurized tanks from Solid Waste customers for delivery to the Area Recyclers; 2 Trash Tags are required. To get on the list for pick up send an email to email@example.com with your name, address and telephone number.
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The City does not have containers available for rent. There are commercial haulers in town that offer this service. Floyd's EZ Way Container Service (319-752-5394); LaVeine Sanitation Service (319-753-0405); Luxx Limited (319-572-7921) or Fisher Metals & Recycling (319-209-1143)
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The City does NOT pick up Christmas trees. You may dispose of Christmas trees at the Des Moines County Regional Landfill free of charge if you show a recent water bill that indicates the line item "TRASH". Trees must be free of wire, tinsel, and ornaments.
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Speaking to pest control professionals about your infestation is critical. Disposal of furniture after professional treatment may not be necessary and can be expensive to replace. There are mattress and box spring encasements specifically designed to help control bed bug problems. In answer to the question, yes, but only if properly prepared and tagged. The item must be enclosed in heavy-duty plastic sheeting such as a tarp or shrink wrap (rolls of shrink wrap are generally available at stores like Wal-Mart, Menards, Lowes, etc). All seams must be taped using duct or box tape. This should be done inside the house BEFORE moving items and placed at collection point as near the time is to be collected as possible. Attach a sign or label "Bed Bugs- Do Not Take" to discourage scavengers and prevent spread of infestation. Trash Tags may be required; call and leave a message on the Solid Waste Information line 319-753-8114 or send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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First Big Storm of the Season, but no Sewer Overflow to the River!
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The beautiful weekend may have already erased memories of last Thursday evening's downpour, which resulted in stormwater flowing down the streets and some trees to crash down on Forest Park's Lower Macleay trail. But here's a great piece of news: in the past, this type of rain storm would have filled the city's sewer pipes and caused an overflow of combined sewage into the Willamette River. This time, that didn't happen.
Thanks to Portland's investment in fixing combined sewer overflows (CSOs) with upgrades to our sewer infrastructure, the river and Columbia Slough are cleaner and safer for people and fish. The CSO control program included constructing the big pipe, disconnecting downspouts, and building green street facilities to manage the rain naturally. Portland's combined sewer system used to overflow an average of 50 times a year. Now, those overflows rarely happen. Learn more in a video about the CSO program here.
In the last two years since the big pipe was completed, there have been only five overflows to the Willamette River. There hasn't been a significant combined sewer overflow to the Columbia Slough since 2000.
The wastewater engineers and operators at Environmental Services work 24-7 to keep the sewer system pumping and treating sewage and stormwater. Thursday and Friday, they kept right up with the storm, and the big pipe got only 87% full. Our green infrastructure, like street trees and rain gardens, also does its part to keep a lot of stormwater out of the system and save ratepayers money. This big storm dropped an average of 1.25 inches of rain on central Portland in 12 hours, but no sewage spilled in to the river. That's something we can all celebrate! While we are paying off the construction costs of the combined sewer overflow projects for several more years, it's important to remember that this infrastructure will be working for clean rivers for many decades to come.
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Angel Beats!SynopsisFinding himself thrust into a strange world, Otonashi Yuzuru is caught up in the battle between the angel and the resistance. Leading the team of the rebel alliance, the Shinda Sekai Sensen (SSS) is Nakamura Yuri, who has set out to prove that God doesn't exist, mostly because of the cruel fate that lead to her death and that of her family. ReviewI apologize if the above synopsis makes it sound like Angel Beats is a good show, because it most certainly isn't. I had hopes, though. Angel Beats is written by two of the writers from Key, who many of you know as the creators behind games like Kanon and Clannad, both of which had excellent shows made in their names. Also, for what it's worth, the concept the way it comes across in the synopsis is actually pretty intriguing. And therein lies the first problem I noticed with this show; its completely inability to stick to what it starts. In some ways, Angel Beats shares the same problems I had with Aquarion; it overloads the story with too many elements in an attempt to please as many people as possible, except that Angel Beats only has half the episode number that Aquarion does, so it feels even more fragmented. And NONE of it is any good. Visual Art's/KEY or not; sadly, Kyoto Animation is not the team behind this show, which is a shame, because Angel Beats could've used every bit of eye-candy to make up for its flaws. Which is not to say the show is badly animated, but it's definitely more low-key than the gentler, but vastly more visually arresting Kanon. I have to give the animation props, though, for generally making the action sequences look nice. The music isn't all that better either; not bad, but not really all that good either, except for the opening and ending themes, which are both pretty good. So props and apologies to PA Works; you did nice work on this show, and that needs to be acknowledged. Though I still roll my eyes and chuckle every time I read "original character design" on the Wikipedia article about this show. Problem is, Angel Beats doesn't have any compelling characters. Most of them are loudmouth assholes, and the few characters I didn't actively dislike weren't really all that interesting anyway. And while I accepted the angle in Kanon, I have to admit I'm getting mighty tired of the KEY writers' inability to create something without having to rely on amnesia to keep plot points on the backburner until they're needed. When you're taking all this from our main character, Otonashi Yuzuru, you are basically left with a watered-down version of Haruhi Suzumiya's Kyon and Kanon's Yuuichi; a sarcastic center without any wit. Which still makes him a better character than Nakamura Yuri, the leader of the rebel faction and a character that shares more than a few passing resemblances to a certain miss Suzumiya, both in appearance and attitude. The laziness continues with the angel herself; Tachibana Kanade, who, while not sharing the visual resemblance, certainly acts a lot like a certain other girl from Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, though in all fairness, neither of the shows are the only ones with deadpan and seemingly antisocial behavior patterns. She's also voiced by Hanazawa Kana, who brings out the same voice she did for Kajiwara Sora in Sketchbook, possibly to mirror the slight resemblance in character design. Where the show really falls apart is in the main story, or whatever passes for it. The one constant in the show is that the school in question is some kind of afterlife, and some of the characters in it are indeed very much dead. Note that I said "some", because the rest of them are basically NPCs -- designated as such by Angel Beats itself -- characters who basically just go through preprogrammed routines to give the impression of a larger community, regardless of what the others might be doing. This includes the inconsistence of them attending concerts in the show made by the actual characters, but otherwise not reacting when the members of the SSS acts like a bunch of fruitcakes in class. But even the other members of the SSS are basically a group of redshirts. And, since the show points out that you can't really die, even if you're stabbed through the heart, that means they're recyclable redshirts. This also means that all the fights at the beginning of the show are completely redundant, since the characters can receive ludicrously fatal wounds and be fine, which means the fights in the show are, for the most part, a huge waste of time. But hey, explosions makes everything better and all that. I suppose it's also to give the band a chance to shine, because, as I mentioned, Angel Beats also have in-show concerts because those seems to be all the rage nowadays. Thank you, Haruhi Suzumiya and K-On! Your contribution to anime trends are... noted. Of course, since Tachibana Kanade is so ludicrously cute, she couldn't possibly be a real villain, right? If that's your train of thought, then you most certainly arrived at the correct station. And that's also where this show loses itself in more plot twists than you could beat off with a stick. When Angel Beats loses its interest in gunfights and rock music, they start going into a few of the characters' backstories, which are basically stories about how they ended up in this bizarre version of the afterlife. Some of them could actually have made decent sob stories by themselves, but since they're just that -- backstories -- they're not really explored in depth like they should have been. The rest of the plot elements are basically just barriers thrown in the way of the main characters, and are abandoned just as quickly as they're surpassed, never to be mentioned again. There's episodes (one at a time, maybe two) centered around underground arms production lines, evil Kanade clones or mysterious shadow beings. I suspect they are all from the same ninja family tree, because they arrive right out of nowhere, and disappear right after they do their thing, never to be seen or heard from again. Don't expect the comedy to save the show either. Most of the time, Angel Beats relies on one-note jokes repeated throughout the whole episode, or people screaming and threatening each other, which tends to get annoying really quickly. And with Otonashi lacking Kyon's sarcastic wit, his vocal misgivings about his teammates' idiocy lacks any kind of punch. The humor also consists of "people shouting at each other" and humor by way of a character whose sole role is to do dance moves or offer random lines in English that make absolutely no goddamn sense. Sometimes, he even does both things simultaneously. And finally, at the end of it all, a long, long time past the point where Angel Beats stopped making any sense at all, the show ends. Not with a bang, like the old saying goes, but with a whisper. In an attempt to salvage any goodwill it could've had at this point, it plays out its final plot twist. In any other show, this might have had some heart to its name, but due to a gargantual plot hole, it just manages to make the show collapse all over itself and fall down the crater it created from the sheer scope of said plothole. There simply isn't any excuses for this kind of laziness. Angel Beats goes from being mildly intriguing to mildly annoying. Then, it becomes dumb and irritating before it starts grating patience by jumping all over the place. Angel Beats has no sense of humor, scale or progression of time and no fortitude to stick to one or two of its themes or topics and create something solid out of that. Instead, what you get is a cacophony of noise and color, completely devoid of substance, atmosphere and character. The only value this show has is in its opening and ending theme, which is available on an EP. That is the only part of this show worth spending any money on. A really WEAK two star show; a shallow, random and meandering shell of a show that tries its hardest to please everyone. — Stig Høgset Recommended Audience: There is some violence and bloodletting going on in this show, which, due to the way the show works, is nonlethal. The only deaths in Angel Beats are basically the backstories for the characters who are "lucky" enough to get them. Version(s) Viewed: digital source. Review Status: Full (13/13) Angel Beats! © 2010 VisualArt's / Key / Angel Beats! Project |
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"My Prayers of Gratitude," Ensign, Sept. 2013, 60–61
My Prayers of Gratitude
The author lives in Nevada, USA.
As we struggled financially, I felt that we had so many needs to pray for. Could I really focus my prayers on just gratitude?
Years ago my husband and I purchased a home we adored and spent a lot of time and money fixing it up. Eighteen months later, the economy took a dive. We had to spend our hard-earned savings on a hefty mortgage and a slew of unforeseen expenses.
Months of trials and financial hardships went by. We hit a particularly difficult month of home and auto repairs, medical bills, and a decrease in pay. Our savings quickly disappeared.
I remember praying, asking over and over again for the things we needed. Consumed by stress, I found it difficult to care properly for our children and our family's needs as I was falling into depression and despair. Still, I continued to pray, seeking comfort and knowing prayer to be the anchor keeping me from falling further into darkness.
After months of praying for help, I began thinking of ways to pray more fervently. The Spirit brought to my mind counsel from priesthood leaders and scriptures that taught the importance of expressing gratitude to Heavenly Father. These promptings helped me realize that I needed to express deeper appreciation for my blessings and ask less for the things my family and I needed. I decided that I would try for one week to let go of my daily pleadings and express only gratitude in my prayers.
It was difficult. I felt my family had so many needs. I felt as though I was letting my family down by not asking for the blessings we so desperately needed. How would the Lord bless me when I didn't ask?
Despite my nervousness about it, I tried. I soon realized that my prayers were no longer monotonous pleadings. I regained the ability to recognize the needs of others and see beyond my problems to the blessings that were still mine. My gratitude was drawing me closer to the Savior, comforting me in ways I could not have received otherwise.
A scripture kept coming to mind: "If God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" (Matthew 6:30). This scripture humbled me as I continued to pray. Through gratitude, I was learning more about true humility.
As the week progressed, my prayers changed from "I thank Thee for food, clothing, and shelter" to "I thank Thee for the family that Thou hast preserved and kept well, for the protection Thou dost continue to afford us. I thank Thee for the provisions Thou wilt continue to bless us with." I also remember praying, "I thank Thee for our dependence upon Thee, for Thy mindfulness of us, and for the pathway Thou art preparing for us to escape this bondage, whatever it may be." Somewhere along the line, my prayers became prayers of not just gratitude, not just humility, but of faith also. Without asking for blessings, I was expressing faith that the Lord would provide for us, and my faith was growing exponentially.
During these prayers, my thoughts were often drawn to the sacrifice of the early Saints, and I would ask myself what I was willing to sacrifice. A few more days passed, and we put our beloved home up for sale. The real estate market was severely depressed, but amazingly we were blessed to sell our home. Though we took a significant loss—as we had expected—our family was now in a position to begin building a more firm temporal foundation.
Still, selling our home in such difficult times is not the miracle that I take with me from this experience. The miracle is the faith I developed and the understanding I gained. President James E. Faust (1920–2007), Second Counselor in the First Presidency, declared gratitude to be a "saving principle."1 I think I experienced something of what he was talking about as I turned my heart and prayers to Heavenly Father, receiving comfort, peace, and guidance. My newfound testimony of gratitude is that it inspires humility, humility encourages faith, and faith brings miracles.


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(visited by Bob Grantham, Dave Patton, Tim Dinsdale, Noel Veitch and Neale Patton)
08-Jun-2002 -- 8 June 2002 – Well, the inaugural expedition of the "Invitational International Ad Hoc GPS Club" was a success!
By way of explanation... Dave had made two unsuccessful forays into the forest west of Ladysmith seeking this confluence and Bob and Noel had made another. Hooking up by e-mail we all agreed to await an auspicious confluence of better information, weather and planetary alignment to mount a joint effort. Perhaps more importantly, Dave managed over time to locate a helpful forestry engineer with Timber West, the logging company upon whose private lands the confluence point lies, and arranged for Bob to pick up a key to the gate that blocks the access on Spruston Road.
We met at the Nanaimo airport located on Highway 1 at the little town (don't blink) of Cassidy. Dave brought along his distant cousin Neale, who was on the 202nd day of his around the world odyssey. Tim, a veteran confluence hunter of known repute, saw our last minute plan posted on the web and showed up as well.
Our little convoy of sport utes headed north up the highway, less than a kilometre, then turned west onto Spruston Road. The road is paved for the first while, then turns to gravel prior to being blocked by the aforementioned gate at the boundary of Timber West's lands. Following the forester's map we continued up what is now clearly a logging road, passing under the high voltage electrical transmission lines (see the previous attempts), crossing Wolf Creek and heading back towards the transmission lines using the "North Haslam Hook Up". Once under the power lines we turned right off of the logging road, onto the power line right-of-way access road. Well, calling it a road is a bit of a stretch... more like a track. We felt we were on an African safari as we drove slowly along about 2.6 kilometres towards the confluence, dust boiling up behind the vehicles, the forest denuded of trees beneath the power lines.
As we bounced along we could see the long span of the power lines ahead of us reaching out over the large ravine that had prevented previous attempts coming from the other side. Finally, where the ground started falling away into the depths of the ravine we reached the end of the access road and parked(elev. 497m), approximately 24.5 kilometres from the turn-off at Highway 1. According to all of our GPS's (four, count them, four) the confluence point was about 466 metres away from us, in the forest down in the ravine, just to the east of the power lines.
Fortunately it was a sunny dry day or else we would have gotten soaked as we bushwhacked through the underbrush between the evergreens, stumps and fallen tree trunks, stumbling and sliding down the slope and along side hills. Without too much effort we found the exact spot... assisted by the bright surveyor's tape and a printed card from the "Ladysmith GPS Club" that was hanging over it! Drat!!!
Dave pulled a little yellow plastic flag on a stick out of his pack to further mark the spot(elev. 324m), after we had suitably emblazoned it with our own newly formed club's name. After a celebratory beverage and a round of photos we slogged, pulled and sweated our way back up through the undergrowth to the vehicles.
Back at the logging road gate our little ad hoc club bid each other farewell and dispersed... Dave and Neale heading down-Island to Victoria, Tim heading up-Island to try to bag another confluence point or two, Noel and Bob heading off-Island by speed boat to their home on little Protection Island.


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My boyfriend and I have been dating for 3 years now. He is sweet, patient, loving, and all the things you can ask for in a BF/Husband. One issue is that my sex drive is higher than his. I'd say I'm at an 8-9 and he would be at a 4. On an average, we probably have sex 5-9 times a month. We've fought about it plenty of times starting during our first year together. At this point, I never ask for it or try to start it because I know it may not go anywhere and I don't want to argue or be reminded of how sexually neglected I feel. It's THAT BAD. Now I feel that we have just become best friends who live together and once in awhile sleep together. When we do have sex, sometimes I feel my mind thinking elsewhere. I believe I have programmed my brain to not want to have sex just so that I don't feel lonely and rejected when he says he's not in the mood. I think I lost that spark and special connection with my boyfriend who I love VERY, VERY much. Sometimes I ask myself if I'm happy almost every day because of it. What do I do? Is sex something worth breaking up over??? —Sexually Deprived Female
While I've tackled another version of this question before, I think it's a subject worth revisiting since there are three times more people reading this blog now than a few years ago…
And although I'll weigh in with my normal blend of facts, reason and personal anecdotes, I'd really like to hear from you in the comments below.
Is sex something worth breaking up over?
You're not wrong or shallow to ask the question. After all, if you're only going to have sex with one person for the rest of your life, you'd better be content.
Which is why I would never advocate that anyone marry a man where there's ZERO attraction "just because he's nice". A guy's gotta be able to turn you on and be a good, game and giving lover — otherwise, you will be perpetually dissatisfied.
The question YOU'RE posing, SDF, is a slight twist on that.
It's a lot easier to find a guy with a high libido than it is to find a guy who is marriage material.
See, you have the perfect boyfriend. He's sweet, patient, loving and he's continually demonstrated his worth over the course of three years.
His only flaw is that he's got an average sex drive while you have a high sex drive.
It seems to me that the only person who can really answer the question as to whether you should break up with this man is YOU.
People impose arbitrary dealbreakers all the time. We can quibble about which ones are reasonable and which ones aren't, but ultimately, it's subjective. And my subjective judgment probably doesn't mean all that much to you if you feel sexually deprived if you're not having sex 5 times a week.
Listen, you're not alone. In the past month, I've had two clients tell me, point-blank, that nightly sex was important to them and has been a dealbreaker for them before. That's their right. It's also my right to point out that it's a lot easier to find a guy with a high libido than it is to find a guy who is marriage material. If you have to choose one to marry, I'd choose the guy who is marriage material. But that's just me.
Alas, the invariable blowback from the gallery is "Why should I have to choose? Why can't I get BOTH? Why do I have to compromise on something so important to me?"
And that's where sex is really no different than any other dealbreaker: height, weight, age, education, income, sense of humor, geography, kids, blahblahbah. People who are looking to get married must realize that you don't get EVERY SINGLE quality you're looking for in a partner, but if you get most of them, you're a very lucky person. My wife and I have similar libidos — closer to your boyfriend, for what it's worth — so this is one thing that we didn't have to compromise on. But we did compromise on religion, politics, geography, education, and a host of other things. This is what adults do — assess realistic expectations and either adjust or stay true to your list of demands.
This is what adults do — assess realistic expectations and either adjust or stay true to your list of demands.
If you are insistent upon your partner having any quality that may be somewhat extreme — a man with a PhD (3%), a man who is a millionaire (4%), a man who runs marathons (.1%), etc — you are CHOOSING to limit your dating pool. There's no judgment on you; but it will, by definition, take you a lot longer to find love.
One final point that you seem to have missed is this: you feeling lonely and rejected when he doesn't want to have sex is YOUR decision. He's still your boyfriend. He's still attracted to you. He still sleeps with you. He just has a different biological makeup. It's like being a chef who gets angry that his patrons don't want to eat at 1pm after he just fed them a big lunch at 12pm. You can't take this personally.
So once that's off your head — and you stop judging him and judging yourself because you're different, ask yourself: can I find happiness with this man or is sex important enough that I will continue searching for the man who a) can give it to me every night and b) also has all of the wonderful qualities of your current boyfriend.
You're not wrong whichever way you choose, but it's clear that the path of accepting your normal boyfriend is a surer route to a healthy relationship than blowing things up for a random guy with an equally high sex drive and keeping your fingers crossed that you'll also love him VERY, VERY much.
Unless YOU don't think so, in which case, I wish you the best of luck.


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Only in Iran Funny Photo Album Series : Part 14
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Reporter (not in the picture): Are you also a fan of Kamran and Hooman?
Javad: No, but I'm going crazy!
Reporter: Why?
Javad: Me so horny!
Reporter: What do you do about it?
Javad: Chasing chadori women, bache kuni sissy boys, and little poodle dogs or baby lambs down the dark alley to catch and do the nasty to them!
Reporter: Why do they call you Javad Banagoosh?
Javad: Look at my mustache! I'm a certified Persian Thug and my mustache is all the way down to my ears! Sebil az banagoosh dar rafteh!
Reporter: Did you go to school?
Javad: No, but I have a degree in Persian Perversions!
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Mole Valley, district, administrative and historic county of Surrey, southeastern England. It occupies the south-central portion of Surrey, with the town of Dorking as its administrative and service centre.
The River Mole, from which the district takes its name, flows northward across it to join the Thames at Hampton Court, on the southwestern edge of Greater London. The river cuts through a line of chalk hills (the North Downs) in a steep-sided valley that is followed by road and rail routes. South of the Downs is a narrow lowland and then a second line of sandstone heights. Dorking stands at the point where the River Mole enters its narrow valley section from the south.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Model Health Care System Drops Medicaid Patients
So let me get this straight. The government sets the rates for the poor and disadvantaged and one of the President's model health care systems balks? How's this going to work when the government runs more and more of the health care delivery in the US?
Maybe this is why Mayo isn't too happy with the current reform plans.
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Mayo Clinic Jacksonville doesn't participate in Medicaid - don't think it ever did.
"Medicaid: Mayo Clinic does not participate in any state or county aid programs, including the Florida Medicaid program. A pre-care deposit typically ranging from $2,500 to $4,500 is required." - Tue Oct 13, 12:33:00 PM CDT
Dear Doc,
Would you consider another title for this article? How about ...Drops SOME Medicaid Patients.
I think I've picked up that you aren't a big fan of the NYT. Fair enough. But come on - The Washington Times!?
Don't get me wrong. I love your blog. It is always teaching me something. But I hope wou won't be offended by a little push back. - Wed Oct 14, 10:17:00 AM CDT
- DrWes said...
Appreciate the constructive criticism. Here's more info, from the Washington Post. - Wed Oct 14, 01:04:00 PM CDT
I took a look at the WAPO link - and the comments about it. Reminded me of something Frank Langone (founder of Home Depot) said on CNBC this morning. That the up and coming generation is - for the first time - dumber than the generation that came before it. And "dumb and dumber" was the general nature of the comments.
For example - people don't have any concept of Medicare (in terms of paying in when you're working and what you pay when you're on it). Paying for Medicare separately as part of FICA started relatively recently. And current recipients are 100% subsidized on part A - and up to 75% subsidized on part B (depending on income - minimum payment is about $100/month - and a married couple doesn't have to pay more per person unless MAGI exceeds $170k/year). The subsidy comes from the Medicare part of FICA - which is inadequate - which is why Medicare is now scheduled to go broke in about 2017. And Medicare doesn't cover everything - you need a Medigap policy too - unless you want to take risks like running out of hospital days. That will cost about $300/month to "plug the gap". Perhaps part D coverage too - at a cost of about $30/month. So - even with huge subsidies - a Medicare recipient will pay over $400/month - close to $5,000 year for Medicare. If you're married - that's about $10k more or less a year. For some reason - the WAPO readers think it costs a heck of a lot less.
Also - Mayo JAX and Scottsdale have never accepted Medicaid. All of the main Mayo facilities (which don't do primary care) accept Medicare patients - but do not accept Medicare assignment. For some reason - even though they wind up doing less paperwork as a result of this policy - they get paid about 15% more from Medicare. I have never understood the rationale behind this payment scheme (designed by Medicare - not Mayo). Perhaps someone can explain it to me. - Thu Oct 15, 06:19:00 PM CDT
I asked each of my three doctors (primary care, psychologist, psychiatrist) once on their feelings about the health care system. I felt what I got back was pretty interesting.
All three of them love Medicare. Medicare pays well and doesn't jerk them around too much. MedicAID, on the other hand... doesn't. I'm not shocked that doctors would refuse to accept it. I read one story where a doc lost money out of pocket on every tonsillectomy he did for Medicaid patients. If you pay less than the procedure is worth, why would any sane doctor accept your "insurance"?
Medicaid should probably die and be replaced with a public option that involves co-pays, co-insurance, and deductibles. The more truly poor you are, the less these amounts will be, but NEVER let them be zero unless you want people calling ambulances at 3am to go to the ER for a pregnancy test.
True story. Taxpayers paid cost for transport and ER time. The "patient" paid nothing. When something is free to use, there's no disincentive. Medicaid needs to stop being free to use. Then the program might have more money and doctors might start accepting it again. - Sat Oct 17, 04:01:00 PM CDT


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Decision Letter on Request to Amend Arizona State Accountability Plan
September 15, 2005
Tom Horne
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Arizona Department of Education
1535 West Jefferson Street, Bin 2
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Dear Superintendent Horne:
I am writing in response to Arizona's request to amend its State accountability plan under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The changes you requested are aligned with NCLB and are now included in an amended State accountability plan that Arizona submitted to the Department on August 19, 2005. The changes are listed in an attachment to this letter. I am pleased to fully approve Arizona's amended plan, which we will post on the Department's website.
If, over time, Arizona makes additional changes to the accountability plan that has been approved, Arizona must submit information about those changes to the Department for review and approval, as required by section 1111(f)(2) of Title I. In addition, if any findings regarding Arizona's accountability plan result from the recent monitoring review by the Student Achievement and School Accountability office, Arizona would need to amend its plan to address those findings.
Please note that approval of Arizona's accountability plan is not an approval of Arizona's standards and assessment system. As Arizona makes changes in its standards and assessments to meet requirements under NCLB, Arizona must submit information about those changes to the Department for peer review through the standards and assessment process.
Please also be aware that approval of Arizona's accountability plan for Title I, including the amendments approved above, does not indicate that the plan complies with Federal civil rights requirements, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and requirements under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
I am confident that Arizona will continue to advance its efforts to hold schools and school districts accountable for the achievement of all students. I wish you well in your school improvement efforts. If I can be of any additional assistance to Arizona in its efforts to implement other aspects of NCLB, please do not hesitate to call.
Henry L. Johnson
cc: Governor Janet Napolitano
Amendments to the Arizona Accountability Plan
This attachment is a summary of the amendments. For complete details, please refer to the Arizona accountability plan on the Department's website: www.ed.govhttps://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/stateplans03/index.html.
Calculating adequate yearly progress (AYP) (Element 3.2)
Revision: Arizona will use a goal of 90 percent for the attendance rate indicator. A school or LEA is deemed to have met the goal if it demonstrates a one-percentage point improvement over the previous year.
Minimum Group Size (Elements 3.2, 5.5, and 10.1)
Request: Arizona will use a minimum group size of 40 (with a 99% confidence interval) for proficiency and participation rate calculations.
District identification for improvement (Element 4.1)
Revision: Arizona will identify districts for improvement only when they do not make AYP in the same subject or other academic indicator in both grade spans (i.e., elementary/middle and high schools) for two consecutive years. In implementing this provision, Arizona should 1) monitor districts that have not made AYP in one grade span but have not been identified for improvement to ensure they are making the necessary curricular and instructional changes to improve achievement, and 2) take steps to ensure supplemental services are available to eligible students from a variety of providers throughout the state (including in districts that have not been identified for improvement but that have schools that have been in improvement for more than one year).
Including students with disabilities in AYP (Element 5.3)
Revision: Arizona will use the "proxy method" (Option 1 in ED's guidance dated May 7, 2005) to take advantage of the Secretary's interim flexibility regarding calculating AYP for students with disabilities. Arizona will calculate a proxy to determine the percentage of students with disabilities that is equivalent to 2.0 percent of all students assessed. For this year only, this proxy will then be added to the percent of students with disabilities who are proficient. For any school or district that did not make AYP solely due to its students with disabilities subgroup, Arizona will use this adjusted percent proficient to reexamine if the school or district made AYP for the 2004-05 school year. This calculation will not use a confidence interval.
Including English language learners in AYP (Element 5.4)
Revision: Arizona will take advantage of the flexibility offered in the Secretary's letter of February 20, 2004 regarding the inclusion of English language learners who have become proficient in the English language learner subgroup for up to two years after the students have reached proficiency.


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- Artists
Jason Evans born 1968
Stylist Simon Foxton born 1961 - Part of
- Strictly
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- Photograph, c-print on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 805 × 805 mm
frame: 810 × 810 × 40 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented anonymously 2001
- Reference
Jason Evans, working under the pseudonym 'Travis', was one of a number of photographers whose work first appeared in the new fashion and lifestyle magazines that emerged in the 1990s. These publications worked to blur the boundaries between art, fashion and life, and championed a new sort of realism in fashion photography, where photographers drew inspiration from street and youth culture, capturing the authentic, ordinary and everyday.
This photograph, taken as part of Evans's first fashion shoot, is from the series Strictly, which was originally published in 1991 in London-based i-D magazine. Each work in the series depicts a young black man standing on a suburban street. Shown full-length, and directly facing the viewer, Evan's models wear impassive expressions and strike neutral poses. Evans was interested in the nineteenth-century notion of the dandy at the time of making these images, and saw the men as exemplifying contemporary flaneurs. As is common in contemporary commercial photography, Evans worked with a stylist, Simon Foxton (born 1961), in producing the series of images. Commonly used in editorial work, stylists contribute to the staging of photo shoots, arranging the clothing and props and acting as scouts for locations and models, and as such are influential to the look of an image. The clothing worn by the models in Evans's images is an eclectic mix of separates – in the main, urban sportswear combined with elements of classic British tailoring – and is idiosyncratic rather than obviously fashionable. "The syntax of the clothes was completely upside down," Evans said of the work. "It was a new vision of Britain. We were trying to break down stereotypes." (Evans quoted in Val Williams, Look at Me: Fashion and Photography 1960 to the Present, exhibition catalogue, British Council, London, 1998, p.113)
The photographs in Strictly combine the staginess of a fashion shoot with the cool neutrality of the documentary. They are at home in their suburban street environment. The low viewpoint gives the men a commanding quality; we literally look up to them. While the work is firmly in the format of editorial fashion photography – even in the gallery space the artist suggests the images might be shown in pairs, echoing a magazine layout – the images fit easily in other contexts. Like the work of other photographers of this generation, for example Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968), Evans's work weakens the distinctions that had previously existed between commercial photography and high art. These images have the appearance of portraiture, and might be seen as an exploration of identity politics, particularly race and sexuality, or as a documentary photo-essay on aspects of London's multiculturalism. Evans saw the work as more than simply documenting new developments in street culture. Instead, he was interested in the possibilities of using the format of fashion photography to explore social issues, not only by framing a set of codes or a semiotics of sub-cultural style, but also presenting them in an ambiguous context.
Further reading:
Val Williams, Look at Me: Fashion and Photography 1960 to the Present, exhibition catalogue, British Council, London, 1998, pp111-113, 123, series reproduced pp.68-69 in colour, reproduced p. 113 (detail)
Iwona Blazwick (ed), Century City, exhibition catalogue, Tate Modern, London, 2001, reproduced p.74 in colour (detail)
Maria Bilske
October 2004
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JAKARTA — Indonesian election officials were expected on Tuesday to officially declare Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo the winner of a hotly contested presidential election in which his rival has alleged mass cheating.
Private tallies show Jokowi beat former special forces chief Prabowo Subianto by about five percentage points.
Prabowo has refused to concede defeat and is expected to challenge the result in the Constitutional Court, though experts say such an appeal is unlikely to succeed.
A spokesman for the Election Commission said the announcement would be made by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT).
Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged whoever loses the closest presidential race in Indonesia's history to acknowledge the outcome to avoid violence in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
"Admitting defeat is noble," the president told reporters on Monday, in a clear reference to Prabowo.
Hundreds of thousands of police and military are on heightened alert across the vast archipelago of 240 million people, the world's third largest democracy. There have been no reports of major violence.
"There are a lot of rumors of instability and unrest but cautiously I'm confident that it is implausible," said Tobias Basuki, a political analyst at the CSIS think-tank.
Markets have largely brushed off the uncertainty in Southeast Asia's largest economy and have rallied on the likely Jokowi win. A protracted wrangle over the election outcome could undermine confidence.
"The possibility of overturning the election result is very slim. Investors will instead focus on the presidential cabinet, which the new president should announce by October," said Sebastian Tobing of Jakarta-based brokerage Trimegah Securities.
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The Jakarta Stock Exchange is trading near a one-year high, closing up nearly 1 percent on Monday. The rupiah has also strengthened against the dollar, gaining 0.4 percent to 11,567.
Jokowi has a film-star following.
Born in poverty, he has stormed his way to the top rungs of leadership with a clean image and a reputation for competence in local government, in complete contrast with the autocracy, corruption and power politics that have weighed down the country for decades.
Prabowo's reputation as a strongman and his vow to reverse the indecisiveness of the outgoing government won him a large following among people yearning for a return to old-style politics.
Candidates can lodge complaints with the Constitutional Court, as did the losers of the previous two elections since strongman ruler Suharto was forced to step down in 1998 after more than three decades in power.
The Court must return a verdict on any challenge within two weeks and it cannot be appealed.
"It is going to take a lot to push this to the Constitutional Court. Prabowo's camp has to prove there was massive, systemic fraud," Basuki said.
Election officials said reports of irregularities had been investigated, but the number of disputed votes is limited to thousands of cases.
Analysts believe a reversal of up to seven million votes would be needed to overturn Jokowi's lead and hand victory to Prabowo.


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Psalm 29
David counsels, Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness—David sets forth the wonder and power of the voice of the Lord.
A Psalm of David.
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